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TIL that Richard Feynman drove a van with Feynman diagrams painted on it.

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wLJJY TIL that there are only seven countries where alcohol is illegal: Afghanistan, Maldives, Mauritania, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, and Yemen
a8A6L TIL that Lord Byron kept a bear with him during his time at Trinity College, in defiance of the college's rule of not allowing students to keep dogs
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